DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 5, 2023
Florida vs. Education: Florida legislators have proposed a spate of new laws that would reshape K-12 and higher education in the state, from requiring teachers to use pronouns matching children’s…
Trump seals the deal at CPAC
Paul Campos at LGM watched Trump's CPAC speech: I’m watching Donald Trump doing his improv shtick at CPAC right now — it’s on CSPAN — and if you think somebody…
Spot the racism
Here are two headlines about the same story. One is from Fox News and one is from WHYY. It will take a keen eye, but see if you can spot the…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Biden Chooses Reelection Over DC Self-Rule. Once a politician...: President Joe Biden changed course on Thursday, informing Democrats that he will not veto a Republican-sponsored resolution overturning a new Washington,…
MAGA Shitheads just love being Putin’s bitch
MAGA fuckwits (including MAGA members of congress) really got excited when they saw this doctored video. https://youtu.be/36K33bVetn8
Song of the Day 3/3: The Ramones, “Punishment Fits the Crime”
I suppose there's a reason America's laughably labeled "news" channels covered some South Carolina ass clown's murder trial as if it were OJ 2.0 -- I didn't experience this first-hand,…
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 3, 2023
Medicaid Expansion Comes To--North Carolina! Heretofore only one of 11 states to not embrace the Affordable Care Act. A rare bipartisan political deal that's worth embracing: The agreement from Senate…
The denial dog that never barked
Fox News has fully exposed itself as the for profit propaganda arm of the GOP. Democrats are now free to stop pretending that it is "news" in a traditional sense. Even members of the media fraternity are now saying that Fox News propaganda arm of the GOP. But here is the interesting thing - nobody in the GOP or at Fox News denies it. They are candid - Fox News isn't a news service, its a propaganda service.
No defenders of Fox have risen and attempted to make the case that Fox News is legitimate news. Steve Bannon simply says that they are part of the GOP and a part that should be be doing a better job electing Republicans.
Welcome to DelaWOKE – MAGA owned firms wondering when whites will ever get a fair shake in this state as Delaware moves to increase diversity in state-funded construction projects
Delaware using pilot studies to increase diversity in state-funded construction projects Anitra Johnson In a state where Black and Hispanic people make up one-third of the population, the likelihood that…
The Real Target
The New York Times and other Trans-hating media outlets will want you to think that it isn't the trans youths they hate but the doctors and their diabolical sex change…
Expand Social Security Benefits by $2,400 a year & fully fund the program through 2095
Now that... (above) is something Democrats could run on and win, if they only had the guts to do it. Sure they'd have moderate ass-wipes like Coons and Kaine fretting…
Song of the Day 3/2: Big Louisiana, Willy Rafus and Arthur Davis, “Let Your Hammer Ring”
A bunch of millionaires known as "U.S. senators" have been sitting around in their Washington, D.C., offices pretending that the richest country in the history of the world simply can't…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 2, 2023
'Woke' Banks Fight Back--And Win. The good news?: Even in conservative states, the proposals went down. The bad news?: It's because the banks did the fighting back: Conservatives have long…